davegauer

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Comment · 3 years ago

Alpine is wonderful for old hardware.

Comment · 3 years ago

"Retrofitting performance into existing applications is very difficult technically, and almost impossible to prioritize organizationally."

While this may not be the only explanation for why this trend continues, I think it's *spot on* to explain why this continues in commercially-funded software.

Comment · 3 years ago

Yeah, Vundle's (presumably temporary) removal caught me off guard today on a fresh install. This, in turn, has caused me to take a hard look at the Vim plugins I was using. Turns out I only needed one...which I wrote. So I'm now just storing that one in the horrible "vanilla" Vim plugin scheme and putting that in my dotfile management.

Just a good reminder that dependencies will always let you down. It's just a matter of time. Oh, and never turn your back on a big company.

Here's the tracking on this issue:

https://github.com/community/community/discussions/48173

GitHub: "The VundleVim organization has been flagged. Because of that, your organization is hidden from the public."

Comment · 3 years ago

Exactly, thank you. :-)

Comment · 3 years ago

Please note that these are slides for a talk. Regular web page in the works!

Comment · 3 years ago

Please note that these are slides for a talk. Regular web page in the works!

Comment · 3 years ago

Please note that these are slides for a talk. Regular web page in the works!

Modern Health, frameworks, performance, and harm ericwbailey.website

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Bumps Are the Road letter.salman.io

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Henry Baker to the ACM on “Relational Databases” (1962) web.archive.org

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Comment · 4 years ago

I visited the article only to make sure it mentioned the novel "The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop." by Robert Coover.

I was thinking about that book just yesterday. I find something about the way it goes "all in" on a tabletop gaming system deeply appealing. Probably for the same reasons I find pencil and paper RPGs and programming computers appealing.